[PRCo] Re: Merry Christmas

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Cramer;


Thank you for sharing the details of your service, most especially for the details
provided here.  I do not know why I was moved to look up the word 'trumpet'
in Strong's but I found something interesting:

'trumpet' is used 9-times in the NT;  the same Greek word is used for each except
for Mt-6:2  (first usage in the NT;)  1-Cor-15:52 does 'not' have a reference to a Greek
word.  This is the first time I experienced this.  I looked at the notes in the beginning
and it says:  "If no number appears, the word may have been supplied by the
translators to clarify the meaning, even though no specific Hebrew or Greek word was
used to express it.  In other instances more than one word in the original language
was included in the English translations."

'Sometimes' searching out the original language adds real meaning because of the 
last sentence quoted but as I am not a lexicrographer I tread lightly.

Please tell us more about your participation in services.

Merry Christmas.


Phil






> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dennis F. Cramer <dfc1 at windstream.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 9:32:50 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Merry Christmas
> 
> The name of the group is based upon the 1545 translation of the Bible by 
> Martin Luther.  St. Paul's description of the last days of mankind in 1 
> Corinthians 15:52 uses the phrase; die Posaune schallen (the Trombone shall 
> sound).   To the German mind, the sound of the trombone was like the voice 
> of God.
> 
> 1 Corinthians 15:52
> 
> Martin Luther 1545
> 
> 51 Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis: Wir werden nicht alle entschlafen, 
> wir werden aber alle verwandelt werden; 52 und dasselbe plötzlich, in einem 
> Augenblick, zur Zeit der letzten Posaune. Denn es wird die Posaune schallen, 
> und die Toten werden auferstehen unverweslich, und wir werden verwandelt 
> werden.
> 
> King James 1611
> 
> 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be 
> changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: 
> for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and 
> we shall be changed.
> 
> Neither instrument is from biblical times.  The shofar (rams horn) is the 
> probable instrument.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis F. Cramer
>       Trombone